On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have succesfully installed Mandrake 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron 3700 laptop.
> (with Gnome as desktop).
> (Mobile Pentium III, UltraDMA/ATA-33, Ati Rage Mobility-P, Ess Maestro-2E)
>
> Everything seems to be working OK except `shutdown -r now'.
> This happens from both runlevel 3 or runlevel 5.
> The machine seems to do a perfect shutdown but does not startup
> again: the screen remains backlit and the disk whirs but that is it.
>
> Shutdown with reboot worked under Win98 before I removed it!
>
> In `/var/log/messages', after `shutdown -r now' you can indeed see:
> `syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded'
> `exiting on signal 15'
> but no:
> `syslog 1.3-3: restart.' after this to start up again.
>
> I have checked things like `/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt', etc. and as
> far as I can see everything appears to be correct.
>
> Has anybody experienced anything like this? (on a laptop?)
> Could it be a Mandrake problem or perhaps a BIOS/laptop problem?
> (Nothing in the BIOS setup suggests possible problems)
>
> Alexander
I would love to tell you I have a solution for this but it just isn't the
case :( I do have a test for you to try though.
On the install cd under Mandrake/RPMS, you will find an rpm
kernel-linus-2.2.14-1mdk.i586.rpm. Install this on the system and add an
option to lilo.conf to boot it.
## My current entry
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdksmp
label=air
root=/dev/hdb13
append="hdc=ide-scsi ide2=0xd000 ide3=0xdc00 mem=256M"
read-only
## My current entry, showing only things to modify
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdksmp
label=air
## After modifcation
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus
label=linus
just copy & paste the current section, from the top of lilo.conf to the
bottom, modify the two lines, and update the boot sector by running lilo.
Reboot the machine, hit tab at the lilo prompt and you'll see the new
entry. Type linus, let it boot and see what 'shutdown -r 0' does, if it
acts just as before it's probably not our kernel patches or anything like
that.
And just for the record what _exactly_ does the laptop do, whirs, beeps,
lights, please document them all.
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--Axalon
